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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

Viktor Frankl

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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Avoid Concern Gain Life Man Meaning Pain Pleasure
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Condition Freedom Stand
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Burn Endure Giving Light One Liner
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Acknowledgement Belief Believe Conscience Obey Tolerance
A human being is a deciding being.
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Decision Human Being One Liner
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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Bad Inspirational World Worse
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Hero Suffering Uneccessary
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Beloved Importance Love Person Physical Spiritual
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Art Attempt Development Learning Light Live Master Sense Of Humor Trick
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Pursue
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Determination Each Other Human Being Ultimate
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Choose Freedom Growth Power Response Space
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Attain Business Goals Motivational Strive

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